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Classical Music

One of the icons of chamber music, Schubert's celebrated String Quintet is heard in an unusual version on this recording. Schubert's work was styled after those of Boccherini and Onslow, which featured two violins, viola and two cellos. After hearing the double bass virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti, Onslow decided to add an alternative bass part to replace the second cello part. Schubert might have done the same if he had heard Dragonetti play, so the Amsterdam Sinfonietta commissioned this Marijn van Prooijen adaptation, and the double bass part is performed here by Rick Stotijn.

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Like many of Bach's sets, such as the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos form a kind of master anthology - a demonstration of all the imaginable possibilities inherent in a certain musical form. Each of these six concertos calls for a different combination of soloists, every one unprecedented in it's choice of instruments. This recording from the superb English ensemble Florilegium goes in reverse of the numbered order, so that each piece adds to the musician complement.

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Hybrid-SACD pressing.

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